Texas A&M Provost and Executive Vice President Alan Sams, Ph.D., announced Thursday the university is officially changing the names of 8 schools to colleges.  

The shift in designated terminology, which takes effect immediately, applies to the College of Architecture, the College of Education and Human Development, the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, the College of Medicine, the College of Dentistry, the College of Nursing, the Irma Lerma Rangel College of Pharmacy and the College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board approved the changes earlier this year. 

The terminology switch reverts the colleges to their prior names before the 2022 university restructuring. Students graduating this fall will receive the updated titles on their degree classifications. 

“I appreciate your patience with the phased transitions as we graduated students this summer under the outgoing names so that we will begin the fall semester with the now fully transitioned colleges,” Sams said in the press release.

Along with the changing of names for the colleges, the Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences degree program, which has been under the College of Arts and Sciences since the 2022 realignment, will move to the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. 

The affected academic departments were changed from “college” to “school” in 2022 due to former-President M. Katherine Banks’ Path Forward Initiative. The College of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts was added to the university under the same realignment. This reversal is part of A&M’s continued efforts to ensure consistency and clarity across its various departments, the press release reads.